Textual Reflexions

There are only two kinds of people, those who read A. A. Milne and those who read J. S. Milne, that’s all.

My today’s fortune cookie says:


Tell me why the stars do shine,
Tell me why the ivy twines,
Tell me why the sky's so blue,
And I will tell you just why I love you.



Nuclear fusion makes stars to shine,
Phototropism makes ivy twine,
Rayleigh scattering makes sky so blue,
Sexual hormones are why I love you.


Some time ago I wished the second part of it didn’t exist, I thought human beings were metaphysical entities, but I was wrong. As far as I can tell we love the sun, because it gives as energy and we are selected to collect it. We like company, because it is strategically better in the case of an aggression and last, but not least important, we love people of opposite sex because our hormones program us to transmit the species and the sexually transmitted disease we call life.

So please leave all your romantic attitudes and thoughts about a greater nature of human beings. They are just wrong. We are here to be born, reproduce and die. All other activities are only utilities to accomplish these aims.

La théorie selon laquelle chaque personne qui passe dehors ton horizon cesse d’exister (cf. les Dialogues de Stanislaw Lem) m’a toujours inspiré comme base de différents déductions philosophiques. Cependant dans la vie réelle elle n’a pas trop d’applications.

Je viens de communiquer avec une personne (pour le curieux c’est Laura, celle dont j’ai parlé dans Souvenirs, si vous la rencontrez vous en resterez pas déçus ; mais je vous avertis : elle risque d’être déjà mariée), qui a compté beaucoup pour ma vie, même si notre connaissance est réduite à trois petit jours.

Le monde devient de plus en plus petit et avec les nouvelles technologies comme FoaF et le Web personne ne peut plus échapper de notre surveillance. Bientôt je suppose qu’on pourra obtenir des informations sur n’importe quelle personne qu’on a connu tranquillement assis sur notre ordinateur.

Comme toute nouveauté, cela peut porter d’une côté des aspects positifs (on retrouve des personne qu’on croyez ne pouvoir jamais voir à nouveau) et des aspects négatifs (les personnes qu’on cherche peuvent se sentir persécutés). Ce qui compte c’est le bilan de tout ça, mais je n’ai pas la prévoyance suffisante pour le deviner.

OHC-RM stands for Open Human Communication - Reference Model is my attempt to classify the human communication processes the way the OSI-RM classifies communication between logical machines. Having quite no knowledge of epistemology (at the moment I am writing at least, I don’t exclude the possibility of influencing my thoughts) I should end up with an alternative vision of human knowledge.

As a matter of fact I tend to classify human languages on three levels:

• low level: letters and other forms of communication, like sounds or computer bits, form words. There is a great variety of protocols for this level. We have already oral and written communication, but surely there are more.
• middle level: words are syntactically tied up to form sentences. I think this layer could be splitted into more parts to deal with the complexity of human languages and different grammars.
• high level: there are some processes in our mind that link the sentences with the meaning. This level should be the domain of logic, but there are some other aspects that I am not sure how to classify. There are some sentences that are grammaticaly perfect, but are not used in the human language. To this category belong the sentences generated by literal translation of sentences in other languages.

I sketched up only the main lines of how we could classify human communication by means of logic, algebra or computer science. I hope many more posts will follow and any hint will be welcome.

To show the new features of this blog I post a beautiful mélange of a teddy bear and flowers. Apparently this picture stroke me more than it strikes the usual destinataries of these services and I was obliged to buy it. (I borrowed the image from Kensflowers.com, hope they don’t mind)

If you didn’t noticed I was totally out of my mind and I blasted bBlog in favour of WordPress. Most old links should still work however. Images are now easily uploaded and multiple posters supported.